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Assignment: On the web, please look at images of works by African Americans, and choose

one work which, in your perception, shows an influence of African aesthetics or an African

artistic tradition, for example, the mask.

Power Point Presentation: choose one work you find 1) compelling, 2) intriguing, or 3) beautiful, or a combination of these. Please put this image on power point, and say your responses to the following queries in your presentation.

19th Century: African House, Melrose Plantation/Louisiana, Harriet Powers and/or African America

Quilting Tradition, Joshua Johnston, Dave the Potter-South Carolina, American Face Vessel–attributed to

African-American Slave Potters/Smithsonian, Underground Railroad Quilts, Emancipation Proclamation

Walking Cane/Brooklyn Museum, Edward Michael Bannister, Edmonia Lewis, Sweetgrass Coiled

Baskets/South Carolina

20th Century: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippin, Meta Warrick Fuller, James van deer Zee,

Archibald Motley, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, William E. Artis, Lois Mailou Jones, Sargent Claude

Johnson, Hale Woodruff, Beulah Ecton Woodard, Romare Bearden, Charles White, Augusta Savage,

Richmond Barthe, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Dox Thrash, Faith Ringgold, Alvin D. Loving, Jr.,

Howardina Pindell, Betye Saar, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Jean-Michel Basquit

21st Century: Adrian Piper, Martin Puryear, David Hammons, Carrie Mae Weems, Xenobia Bailey,

David Hammons, Houston Conwill, Alison Saar, Pat Ward Williams, Sam Gilliam, Pierrot Barra, Ben

Jones, Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, and Kerry James Marshall

Contemporary African: El Anatsui

Format for Power Point and Written Submission

I. Title Page and first slide is the work and blurb, or primary identification. Each question

must be thoroughly answered. The Written Submission is minimum of six pages of writing, and

follows the format below.

I. Please give the blurb or primary identification: Title, Name of Artist (if known

Media, Date, Genre or Subgenre, Place/Location.

Note: the genres covered above are sculpture, painting, architecture, textile, and

subgenre of installation sculpture. In the written submission,

II. Please discuss throroughly why you chose this work, i.e., why you find this work

compelling or intriguing and/or beautiful. What questions did it make you have?

a. What are your personal reasons for this choice?

b. What are your aesthetic reasons for this choice?

III. African aesthetics: what do you see that is African in this work? Please identify

what is most pertinent to yourchoice: these may be key sculptural elements, African

religious beliefs, or a characteristic of African Art.

IV. Please identify at least one aspect of this work which you perceive is not African.

This may be an element, or characteristic of western art.

V. Conclusions: This may be any learning, knowledge or insight you received from doing this

presentation which is of use to you personally or professionally or bot